Volume 16 / Part 4 — Sayings Of S. John Climacus.
Reading edition
It is better to displease our relatives than displease God.
Obedience is simply going about anything without any judgment of our own.
Let your conscience be the mirror in which you behold the nature of your obedience.
A new wound is easily closed and healed; but the old wounds of the soul are cured, if ever, with great difficulty.
He is truly virtuous who expects his death every day; but he is a saint who desires it every hour.
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